>Current objectives:
-Find your way back to the crossroads.
-Find your way back to Earth.
-Find the Kema, who can tell you more about using magic through machinery
-Discover what this huge war is about, and how it's threatening to destroy the universe.

>Current inventory
-1 KV-09 Combination assault blade/energy pistol. Modified with the Void Knight Shield
-1 Screwdriver
-1 Adjustable wrench
-Various spare parts
-A pouch of gold coins
-Another pouch with 19 "Calling Crystals"
-9/10 full oil can

>Current energy stored
-4 Aether tank
-1 Void tank
-1 Apotropeia tank
-0 empty tanks

>Calling Crystal contacts
-Jodo, chief of Yujun village (Palia)

Walking once more through the streets of Hovum, you follow closely behind Thorn and Rose. Whistling a tune from a movie made more than 100 years ago.

The two in front of you look close, as they chat away about something you aren't particularly interested in. You might think they were sisters if they weren't obviously from two completely different species.

Thorn stands about as tall as you, with short, messy red hair. She wears simple, light armor with loose fitting clothes underneath. She doesn't look very big, but that's obviously just because of what she's wearing. You'd have to have some serious muscle to heft a sword THAT big.

Rose, in contrast is much shorter. Well, she's... longer. You're pretty sure that she'd tower over everyone here if she could stand all the way up on her tippy-tail, but that's fairly unlikely. Her hair is a blue-green, matching her tail fairly well. Compared to Thorn she's also less... covered. Wearing only a simple piece of cloth around her chest area.

While you're exaiming them, you remember something. Might as well scan them to learn more...

>Initiating scan...

You consider their names for a moment and chuckle a bit, before noticing that Rose is staring back at you.

"What's so funny?" She asks, her red eyes looking at you almost... accusationally.

>[ ] Nothing in particular

>[ ] You're Rose, and you have a Thorn guarding you.

>[ ] We're off to see a wizard. A wonderful wizard named Oz.

>>29835505
rose thorn

....lets not have to explain the cultural references tinman

Rose/thorn. I'm interested in seeing if they know why its funny

>Was hoping interest would've picked up a bit more by now.
>Regardless, I shall soldier on

>Writing

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>>29836076
as was I but onward

>>29836076
at one point I was trying to figure out what our weapon looked like.... I came up with an oversize under-folder sks bayonet on a draco pistol that uses one of those wrist mounted stocks with the shield roughly where the magazine looking like a weird drum magazine...in a crazy mix of russian weaponry and fantasy physics that would be super awkward and heavy irl..... so i gave up and defaulted with ware using lightnings gunblade from XIII http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug0SooC6hVY

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"Your name is Rose." You say.

"What about it?" She asks.

"And you have a guardian named Thorn."

"So?"

You all stop walking. They're looking at you like you're crazy. That never bothered you though, if it did you might've started to go out of your way to not sound crazy by this point.

Then you realize something that didn't occur to you before. "Rose, what are you named after?"

Rose looks surprised and slightly uncomfortable. She looks up at Thorn, who simply shrugs. "My name came from one of the moons back home." There's something in her voice there... Sadness? Longing? You can't really tell, but you make a mental note not to bring up her home again.

"And you Thorn?"

"Much simpler, although kind of dumb. My dad named me after his spear." She says with a slightly embarassed smile.

"H-uh..." You say, you hadn't really considered that the context for their names would be different.

"You're acting weird..." Rose says. "...er" She adds.

"Sorry, where I come from there's a flower called a rose. It's a beautiful flower, but difficult to pick because all the way up the stem it's covered in spikes called thorns."

Thorn laughs at that, and Rose blushes slightly. "So that's what you were talking about!" Thorn says through her laughter. "I guess you're not completely crazy!"

>[ ] "I'll take that as a compliment..."

>[ ] "Maybe when I make it back there I'll see if I can't find one for you guys."

>>29835505
Rose and Thorn. Should be fun to watch.
Really liking things so far.

>>29836310
>Not really.
>More like the weapon Exia uses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKUGjXHcIkM

>>29836344
I shall take the compliment... for we are not entirely insane

>>29836344

>[x] "Maybe when I make it back there, I'll see if I can find one for you"

>>29836377.... oddly enough not that terribly different than my original hypotheses overall...but it does fit the big sword stuff we were saying earlier more than my ideas

>>29836344
Not completely, no

>writing

>>29836344
"I'll take that as a compliment..."

"I'll take that as a compliment..." You say. That's as close to a compliment about your sanity as you've ever gotten.

"Takin' 'em where you can get 'em eh?" Thorn responds before throwing her head back and laughing loudly.

"C'mon, Oz should be in here if he stayed put like Savvi told him to." Thorn says, ushering you into the building.

>Scan complete!
>'Rose' is from a race known as the Meriden, from the planet Thellis.

>'Thorn' is from a race known simply as 'The Dragonslayers'. Who inhabit the homeworld of the Dragons, known as Braghendire.

So she kills dragons. With a giant sword. That's terrifying.

Further into the building, you reach a door. Thorn knocks in an odd way that you're pretty sure is a passcode of some sort.

"Who is it?" Comes a feminine sounding voice from inside.

"It's me you ass, now drop the housewife act and unlock the damn door!"

The door lights up briefly before opening, revealing a very messy room with a magely looking man inside.

"Sorry about that Thorn, you never can be too cau-" He stops and looks at you, his eyes glowing with a deep blue light. "Where'd you guys find the floating arm?"

>[ ] Awkward silence

>[ ] Floating arm?

>>29836901
silence.... let this soak in

>Writing

>>29836901
Floating arm? Let the disembodied voice freak him out.

You say nothing. You have no idea what he's talking about.

"Oh no, hang on. There appears to be legs as well... and a bit of a head..." He says, getting up off the small couch to examine you more closely.

"Uhh... Oz?" Thorn says.

"Yes?"

"There's an entire person there..." Thorn responds.

Perhaps you aren't the crazy one here after all...

"Well that's preposterous! To be invisilble to Visio rune means that there would be absolutely NO energy running through them. Which is simply not possible."

His head is only a few inches away from yours, it seems like he's looking at the electronic bits of your brain.

You have to say something, this is getting genuinely uncomfortable...

>[ ] BOOGIDABOOGIDABOOGIDA

>[ ] I get that a lot...

>>29837376
ogga booga http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvs7rKOVBFU

>>29837376
BOOGIDABOOGIDA

>>29837376

>[ ] BOOGIDABOOGIDABOOGIDA
As deadpan as possible, but with hand motions and everything.

>writing

>>29836076
on one hand we are not verrry popular...but on the other hand look at the popular quests right now..... look at the clusters they became...on one hand they are sorta fun..on the other...omg the pain

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You can't resist, this is too perfect.
With your right arm you grab him, turn your head to look him dead in the eyes, and in complete deadpan say "BOOGIDABOOGIDABOOGIDA!"

"GAH! Fucking shit, fuck!" He jumps back a good 6 feet, cursing the whole way.

To your right you hear Rose and Thorn laughing.

'Oz' Squeezes his eyes shit for a moment, and when he opens them the blue glow is no longer there. "I'll be damned, there really is someone there!"

Through her laughter, Thorn says "I told you there was!"

"Well that makes this all incredibly awkward... BU where are my manners? My name is Osmund Daedalus Gerrent Wother Melltellian the 14th... But you may call me Oz."

He extends his hand towards you.

"Logan Drey." You say, accepting his handshake. "I can see what you meant about how my name didn't sound Aklabran, Thorn."

Thorn laughs. "It's quite the mouthful isn't it?"

"That's why I prefer Oz. Unlike those other sods."

"Then why do you let Savvi call you Oz-man-diddler?" Rose says.

>[ ] (laugh) Oz-man-diddler?

>[ ] Who's Savvi?

>>29838052
>Yeah, not entirely sure I could handle the sheer volume of shitposting that goes on in the bigger threads.

>But it'd be nice to get more than one or two votes in the ten minutes I usually give for voting

>>29838146
>[ ] (laugh) Oz-man-diddler?

hahhhahahahahahaha...totally is funny in a way we do not understand

>>29838146
>>[ ] (laugh) Oz-man-diddler?

>Writing

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speaking of names my namefag status is not annoying is it?

some people seem to not like it

"Oz-man-diddler?!?" You laugh pretty hard at that.

Oz puts a hand on his face. "I do not LET Savvi call me that, in fact I have expressed my dislike of the term. But it is one she apparently still calls me when I'm not around..." He sighs once before turning his attention back to you. "But you... Where are you from?"

"I'm a Human from Earth." Oz looks as though he's about to reply to that, but you stop him. "Which you've never heard of, I know."

He grins. "On the dot there man. How'd you know?

Now it's your turn to sigh. "That bit has become something of a routine... But aside from that, Thorn said that you're the guy with the knowledge."

"That I am. Though there still seems to be things that I don't know..." He says as he grabs a small, leather bound tome off the table in the center of the room. "Have a seat, no sense lingering by the doorway all day."

Oz sits down on one of the small couches, and you take a seat next to him. Thorn sits down on the other couch and Rose kind of... Lays out on top of both Thorn as well as the rest of the couch.

Oz then opens up the big tome and flis through the pages. He quickly reaches the end of the book, where a page with six strange looking magic circles are drawn. "Not this one..." He lays a hand on one of the circles and it shines, causing the book to disappear and another similiar book to appear in its place.

"Feel free to ask questions while I look for my Visio rune... I can never remember which book I put it in."

>[ ] Ask about the war

>[ ] Ask him why he travels

>[ ] Other (Specify)

>>29838681
I personally dont pay attention to names.
But if it's causing issues, you could just as easily not use it. its not as if it's necessary.

>>29838681
>I don't mind, you've pretty much been here since the beginning and it's nice to know who's talking sometimes.

>>29838812
>>[ ] Other (Specify)
Ask if he has a book with world coordinates, so we have more travel options. Maybe even the coordinates back to the crossroads.

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>>29838812
ask about travel

>>29838812
Surface knowledge first, ask about the war. The reason he's traveling is probably more personal.

>>29838812
Scan him

Writing

"I don't suppose you have any world coordinates do you?" You ask, hoping that he does. That would make this journey a lot simpler.

"I have a few in a small notebook, it's not much as I've been taking advantage of Rose's travel methods for the last little while. Savvi has it right now, but I'll be sure to let you have a look when she gets back."

Something there strikes you as odd. "Rose's methods?" You ask him, unsure of just what that may mean.

"Ah... hold on a second..." He reaches a page in his book and stops. "I suppose I may as well show you..." He puts two fingers onto a pair of small, matching magic circles. They begin to glow and he sort of pulls them off of the page and they hover at his fingertips.

Then he pokes you in the eyes. "Hey what the hell! A little wa-" You open your eyes to the same scene from when you closed them, but the scene is now painted dark blue. "What the..." You trail off, looking around. You can't really SEE anything like this. Instead you seem to be viewing the energy within all of these things. "Aether... Is this what it looks like?"

"Hmm... Yes I suppose a little warning may have helped. That is what things look like through a Visio Rune. Look at your hand."

You do as he says. "There's nothing there..." You can see your left arm and your feet, but not your right hand or your torso.

[1/?]

>>29838865
no literally the beginning... in the beginning I was just the anon who complained about being sick

>>29839680 glad to hear am not angering the op

"Now, look at our dear little Rose."

You look over at Rose, she looks relatively 'normal' to this vision. Except for what looks like the tip of one of her fingers and a spot in her back, which radiate a near blinding light. "What are those?"

"I've coined the term 'skeleton keys' for them. They're her bones, you see. But they're not bones. They're made up of a material that acts as a perfect conduit for both Aether and Void, allowing one who has them to break through the veil and travel to other worlds almost at-will." He stops and waves his hands over your eyes and dispelling the strange filter. "And they're the reason that I've been travelling."

"You've been travelling to look for bones?" You ask, the premise sounds a bit fishy.

"Not bones, man. But the symbols imprinted on them." He opens his book again to a page filled with strange letters. "Pieces of the runic alphabet, all 223 of them. I'm so very close to finishing it. But..." He stops there.

"But?" You ask.

"What exactly are you Logan Drey?" He askes, eyeing you suspiciously.

You consider lying or cracking a joke, but he looks serious. "I'm the void knight." You say sternly.

His eyes show recognition of the term, but he remains suspicious. "The Void Knight died."

>[ ] Tell him how you got the shield

>[ ] "And now I'm the Void Knight."

>>29839834
All of the above

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yep. I was there she gave me this thing and now it is me

>Writing

"I know, I was there." You say.

"You were at the battle on Anitilles? I doubt that." He says. He's turned his book to a page with a rather large rune on it.

"I was not. But wherever that is, it's not where the Void Knight died. She died on Earth, in the underhousing district after she gave this to me." You say, pointing a thumb at the shield on your back."

He looks at you for a few more seconds, trying to see if you're telling the truth before he speaks again. "And what exactly does the Void Knight do, Logan Drey?"

"He guards the universe itself." You say, repeating the line that Achillea used when she described the role.

"Hmm... I suppose if you ARE the Void Knight, there'd be no sense in keeping this from you but..." He looks over at Rose. Rose nods at him. "I'm not the only one looking for these things..."

"Well, I'd assume so. If what you said is true there must be some-"

He cuts you off. Sitting back down next to you and leaning in close. "What do you know of the corruption?"

You furrow your brow. "I've heard that term before... Just once, from the old Void Knight when she gave me the shield. She said it had already begun.

"And begun it has. Whatever it is. I don't know much about it, but its agents seem just as interested in spreading it as they are in obtaining these skeleton keys."

>[ ] What could they want those for?

>[ ] What do you know about it?

>>29840466
What doyou know about it

>>29840466
What do you know?

>writing

"Can you tell me what you do know?" You ask.

"Can I... I suppose. Give me a moment." He looks pensive for a few minutes as you look on expectantly. "The Corruption is a phenomenon that occurs when the boundary between an Aetherian world and the void becomes... thin, allowing the void to permeate the world and all things in it."

He stands up and walks over to where a trunk is sitting on the far side of the room, reaches into it and pulls out a small glass tube with a strange looking purple rock in it. "This is what is caused by Void Permeation. A sort of... allergic reaction from the entire world." He hands you the tube.
The rock inside looks sick. Which is not a word you should ever use to describe a rock. "That is where my knowledge of its effects end, I'm afraid."

That's where his knowledge ends, but you have other sources.

>Scanning...

"I am fairly certain I have the cause pinned though. It is this war. The one between the Proclamation of the One True God and the Kalkarri. While the death of so many gods in such a short time has caused unnecessary strain on the boundaries, the fact that gods are leaving their worlds to fight has certainly not helped..."

"The strangest thing though, is the changes exhibitted by creatures that have succumbed to the corruption. Where they used to simply becoe feral, now they have started to show purpose. They have been hunting down the skeleton keys, and we've gotten into a few brushes with them."

>Scan complete!
>The rock appears to have both Aether and Void within it, causing a discord in the way the energies align.
>This is what is causing the strange mutations in it.
<Anything else you can tell me about it?
>There is nothing more to be said about it.

Damn, you were hoping that would open things up a bit more...

[1/?]

Oz looks as though he was about to continue, when Rose perks her head up. It looks like these explanations bored her. But now something has caught her interest, as her eyes have locked on the door and her forked tongue flicks in and out of her mouth.

"Smell something?" Asks Thorn.

"Savvi's back!" She replies with a big smile.

Just then the door opens, and you see a familiar face. "Hey guys!" She exclaims, before she notices you. "Hello stranger!"

It's the woman with the glowing hair from earlier.

>What say?

>>29841513 well...what else do you say when someone comes in the door you say hello perhaps thanks(again) for the help earlier.

but since she seems to be more at home with these people you should let the others lead the convo...unless addressed for now

>>29841700
Indeed.

>>29841513
Don't forget to scan them all

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The room is quiet for a second, before you break the silence. "Thanks for your help earlier, I'd've probably never found that place on my own. Although there were some issues on the way there." You say, making a pointed glance at Rose.

Oz looks confused. "Right, you never did mention where you found the floating arm."

Thorn looks at Rose, who looks very guilty again. "I kinda... Y'know... stolehiswallet." She blurts out all at once.

Oz looks disappointed, but 'Savvi' looks amused. "I suppose you're invited for dinner then. It was kind of on you." She says with a smile.

Rose quickly slithers off the couch. "You weren't supposed to tell them that!"

"Oh, I do have seem to be quite loose-lipped though." She says before looking at you deviously and adding "You can have Roses share I suppose."

She's obviously kidding, but nevertheless...

>[ ] It seems only fair... (Play along)

>[ ] I don't think that's such a good idea...

>>29842042
Play along

>>29842042
>>[ ] It seems only fair... (Play along)

>Writing

"Well I suppose that's only fair." You say, mirroring 'Savvi's' devious face.

Rose looks back and forth at you and 'Savvi', wide-eyed with surprise. Seemingly on the verge of tears until 'Savvi' starts giggling. "Just kidding Rose. I know Thorn would probably kill me if I made you go hungry." She says, patting her on the head.

You turn to Thorn, she looks exasperated, letting out a sigh before speaking. "Cut with the damn jokes already before you give the poor kid a heart attack."

"Aww, but she's so much fun to tease." She replies in mock sadness before turning to you. "I'm Savvi Ckerei by the way."

"Logan Drey." That's the fourth time you've had to introduce yourself today.

Oz pipes up from behind you. "Hey Savvi, ever heard of a world called Earth?"

Savvi thinks for a moment before responding. "Can't say I have, no."

Oz then turns to you. "Where exactly is your homeworld? I'm curious to see if everyone there is like you."

>[ ] Change the subject

>[ ] I'm not actually sure...

>>29842636
lets not be a mood killer yet

change the subject

>>29842636
change the subject. Maybe get to know their species a bit more. Either that or see if anyone knows specifics on the war.

>>29842696
perhaps mention"you would not want to go to a backwater like that anyway" then divert to those coords we were talking about earlier

>>29842761
Or "It's full of Automatons that wants to kill everything anyway"

>Writing

"Bah, who cares. It's really not that interesting a place." You say, the subject of earth is still a shaky one for you. You want to get home, you really do. But then what? You don't have nearly enough firepower to liberate the place, and you have no intention of going back just to become one of THEM.

You turn to Oz. "Speaking of coordinates, you mentioned that Savvi had a book with a few that I could look at?"

He stares at you for a moment, surprised by your sudden and fairly forced change of subject. "Yes... Book. Savvi, would you mind handing him the book?"

Savvi looks confused. "Why? I get that he's friendly, but..."

"He's the Void Knight, Savvi. One of the few beings that can actually interact with the Void without a skeleton key."

"The Void Knight..." She says, looking pensive before reaching into her sleeve and pulling out a small, red leather book. "You can't keep it, obviously. But you can write down what's in it.

"I'll grab you something to write with!" Oz says, hopping off the couch and starting to head back to the trunk

>[ ] Not really necessary

>[ ] Keep quiet

>>29843040
>>[ ] Not really necessary
Got a real good memory.

>>29843040
BEHOLD PUNY MORTALS AS I SAVE THIS KNOWLEDGE TO MY MIGHTY HARD DRIVE!!!

>>29843111
beeeeeeeeeep
>"you are running out of space on drive C do you wish to clear some space?"
"bugger"

>>29843040
>>29843040
not necessary..... ...am liking these people...perhaps we should part with a calling stone for them...provided they do not poison us or do something assholeish like that...dragon
slayer skeleton keys and portal knowledge boy may be useful contacts>>29843153 as I asked before...we have nearly unlimited storage right?

>>29843188
>not unlimited, but pretty damn large.
>large enough that you won't be running out any time soon.

>also writing

>>29843188portal knowledge boy I mean the wonderful wizard of oz.... aka Oz-man-diddler
also nothing against glowy lady but not enough info on her to think of utility..... or using one may work since they seem to be a group traveling together

"Hold up, that won't be necessary." You say.

<Convert information into text and save to the same location as the other coordinates.
>Saving...

You flip the page whenever the current one is saved, and within a few minutes the whole book is stored. Raising your head, you see that everyone is staring at you.

"Did... did you just memorize that whole thing?" Asks Savvi.

"Not exactly, you see only half of my brain is normal. The rest is all electronic. Those parts aren't as good at critical thinking as a normal brain is, but it 'saves' information instead of memorizing it. The process is faster and ends with a more reliable copy."

Everyone looks confused. "I got maybe... half of that." Says Oz. "How'd you fair?" He asks Savvi.

"About the same. Is this stuff common where you come from?"

"Well, it's more of a recent bit of tech. But yeah, I'd say it's become pretty common." You leave out the part where everyone on Earth now probably has the same neural implant. As it's a depressing thought.

Oz looks at you funny. "You never did say where your homeworld is..."

>[ ] Someone mentioned food. (Subject change intensifies)

>[ ] That's because I myself don't know.

>>29843459
...IThat's because I myself don't know.

...if we evade that again they are going to get suspicious

>>29843539
agreed.

>>29843459
>>[ ] That's because I myself don't know.
We could probably relay information on it, such as it's a yellow star in the eastern arm of the galaxy about 4 light years from a dual star system.

>writing

>>29843594
provided we are actually traveling plantarily not...quasi dimensionally..... also same galaxy?

wait eastern arm.... according to what metric of the concept of east?
old maps had east as up...which si why asia is called the orient....unlikely to be congruent to how they measure it

>>29843669
Don't worry about it, it's unlikely that they know what east is, nor would they understand a lightyear given it's absolutely subjective nature based on our own planets orbit.

"I don't know where it is..." You mumble.

"I'm sorry, what was that?" Says Oz.

You lean back in your seat and crack your neck. "I don't know where Earth is. I was hoping that I'd meet someone out here who does, but thusfar my homeworld seems to be an enigma."

The tone in the room takes a turn for the depressing. "Sorry Logan, I didn't..." Oz says, looking pretty downcast.

"Not your fault. Besides, that place was kind of a shithole. I doubt that I'd go back for any reason other than to clean it up." You say, attempting to wash over your situation.

"The whole planet was a shithole?" Asks Thorn. "I highly doubt that."

"And you would be surprised." You reply.

"Well, it appears we have two displaced children then." Savvi says, she's now sitting on the arm of the couch next to you. Which is odd, because you never heard her approach...

"Two? Who else is..." You look at each of their faces in turn stopping at Rose, who looks several degrees more depressed than anyone else.

"Right, well... remember when I was telling you about skeleton keys? Well... you don't always get to choose then 'when' of your departure from a world..."

The when? Oh...

Rose pipes up. "It's not so bad now... I have Thorn, and Oz and Savvi... It's not like it used to be..." She trails off, leaning into Thorn.

That's kind of cute. Really sad, but still very cute.

"Sssssooooo... You mentioned something about food?" You ask Savvi, who perks up.

"Huh? Oh! Right, hold on..." She runs over to where she left her bags at the door. "I hope you can eat this stuff, it would be embarassing if it was all poisonous to you!"

I still have a lot of explaining to do, but it'll get done. Who knows, if there're more people like these guys out there maybe this whole thing won't be so bad after all

>End of Chapter 5

>Will continue tonight with a quick interlude as well as some Q&A, if anyone has questions.

>This is written by a friend of mine, who did most of the worldbuilding and character legwork for this quest. Enjoy!

An ancient temple, walls of smooth stone, and bygone tales sweeping across them like a gentle breeze. Here, we find a thin, black figure feverishly pacing about. Every fabric of his form bristling with rage "So close..." he thought to himself. "I could have done it. If that horned creature hadn't gotten in my way, I could have ENDED THIS MADNESS!!" "She had the audacity to get in my way... And very clearly underestimated me." His fingers began to extend and retract every few seconds. "And she chose to run rather than finish what she started... The trappings of a warrior, yet nought but a coward." He growled to himself, "I can only hope that I find her again... And give her a slow, agonizing death for letting that monster get away."Eventually, he finally came to a stop, "Every moment he still draws breath, Tattva goes unavenged." He said aloud. Looking down at his feet, he noticed that he had sliced some noticeable grooves into the floor. He kneeled down, running his hand over them, a look of concern in his eyes. He closed them, and tried to focus. It took him awhile, but he finally managed to calm himself. "I should take care not to desecrate this place," he said, "It is one of the few things we have left."

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"Lord Kalki." The figure turned to face the entrance. A being of black stone kneeled before him; burning cracks all over its' body betrayed the fire that was contained within. "Stand." Kalki said to this creature. As it spoke, small licks of flame, and ember, spat forth from its' mouth. It's voice was like something rising up from some deep place beneath the earth. "It is as you suspected my Lord. There are Eture who have settled here." It said, "Geob as well. They have many settlements, and a few large towns. One of them is governed by a lieutenant of The Proclamation." "He will have information on Monthei... We may be able to catch up to him." Kalki mused. The fiery one began to speak again. "Yes, my Lord. We have deemed the Amon to be the most suitable for this task. Though we shall not proceed without your blessing." Kalki seemed to hesitate when the Amon were mentioned. He kept his silence for about a minute before he spoke. "... And have it you shall. Our enemies know little of the Amon, if anything. They are... the natural choice in this." Kalki's voice was quiet. When he finished he slipped back into silence, seemingly finding the walls a lot more interesting. "... My Lord?" The black one spoke, unsure of what to say. Suddenly, Kalki began speaking again, "... I will speak to their Master. You may go now." The fiery one bowed once more, taking his leave.

Kalki found himself in the center of a spiralling maze, standing before a giant obsidian tablet. The words had been raked, and clawed. Nothing could be understood. Anything there was lost. The tablet broke apart, as did the maze. All of it in pieces. All of it being drawn into a cracked sky. Before him was a cliff, and a figure standing at it's edge. Kalki moved forward. As he approached it's edge, he saw the world beneath crack, and shatter. The figure turned. Bronze armor gleaming, strange staff in hand, and eyes leaking energy from within his helmet. "Wonderful to see you again." The figure spoke with a voice which sounded like something was trying to burrow it's way into your head. "Diakunai." Kalki said flatly, yet, with some surprise in his voice, "How did..." "How did you end up in my chambers?" The bronze one said, cutting him off, "You didn't. I decided this would be quicker. Besides, I enjoy the view." The one called 'Diakunai' looked at the sun in the sky, which had turned cold silver. He continued, "You're mind is a fascinating place. So many twists and turns... But there is little that eludes me when I have the mind to know it." As much as Kalki tried to hide it, he was steadily becoming more uncomfortable. "I wish to make use of your children. They should help us learn more about where that creature has landed next." Kalki spoke with authority, focusing solely on the one before him. "And you shall have them." He said without any hesitation. "You say this each time I come here. Is there any point to coming at all? If all you seek is to play with me, then SPEAK PLAINLY! " Kalki was starting to get frustrated, and it showed. "You never say no." Diakunai said smugly. Everything slowly faded into darkness. The bronze creature was now a large beast of shadow, eyes paler than any moon. Kalki awoke. Standing in the temple. As if only a moment had passed.

>Aaaaand that's it. Ignore any mistakes, I was supposed to proofread this before I posted it. But I got lazy.

>Anyone have questions?

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>>29843986
really hard to read.... may need to separate into paragraphs during your next interlude
>>29844029
ahh now it makes sense

>>29844029
Will there be any action/romance in the foreseeable future?

>>29844029
Regardless of the semantics, I enjoyed that.

>>29844080
can we take someone through the void knight travel dealie or just alone or just alone unless using the regular routes

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>>29844117
I hope action more than romance

>foodsu useful

>>29844117
>Yes. We've kind of been in an uphill slog of exposition. Expect things to get more exciting in the next little while.

>>29844121
>You can extend the shields protection. By how much you aren't really sure.

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>If there's no other questions, I require sleep.

>Next thread will be tomorrow evening. I hope to see you all there!

>G'night folks

>>29844276

you're bretty good, OP. Keep it up